ABRAHAM JUDAEI (IBN EZRA, ABRAHAM ). De Nativitatibus ["Of Nativities"]. Edited by Johann Dryander

(ASTROLOGY)

Eucharius Cervicornus

Cologne

1537

Latin. Allegorical title with architectural columns. On final page, graphic with Hebrew and Latin motto “Like a rose among thorns.” 15 astrological charts

Abraham ibn Ezra was born in Spain in 1092 and died in England in 1167. His scholarship contributed to the celebrated Golden Age of Spanish Judaism and was an intellectual bridge between the Moslem world and the Christian West. The science of astrology informs many of ibn Ezra's Bible commentaries, "De Nativitatibus" leans upon the writings of the Jewish astronomer Masha'allah ibn Athari of Basra. See M. B. Epstein, The Book of Nativities and Annual Revolutions (2008); and R. Smithuis, Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Works in Hebrew and Latin: New Discoveries and Exhaustive Listing in: Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, Vol. VI (2006) pp. 239-338